Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-22
saTURuay. oCvoHE. ss. 1887
yhv should II He Done?

why should II He Done?
There are a great many persons,
whose politics are by no means con-
fined to the Democratic party, VINO
are desifous of knowing why such ex-
traordinary pains are being taken to
tender an ovation to Governor Water
man in Southern California. In the
first place, the bones of Governor
Bartlett, an excellent gentleman, are
scarcely cold in the grave. The fu-
neral dirges have hardly yet ceased to
ring in our ears when Democrats are
called upon to join in doing public
honor to a man whose achievements
have lain thus far in the line of undo
ing the work so nobly begun by the
deceased Executive. The accidental
Governor is just now engaged in
conspiracy which in its inception has
shown political malice, and which he
and his advisers are prepared to push
to preposterous lengths. We have
said that the feeling that this is all
wrong is by no means confined to the
Democratic party, and We speak ad
Wis ,dly, for Governor Waterman is by
No m cans popular with the Republi-
cans of his own section. In his own
county he ran away behind his ticket,
and there is at least one important
poll in his own neighborhood,
which, by the way, is overwhelmingly
Republican, in which he did not get Il
single vote. He is not only an acci-
dental Governor, but his nomination
for Lieutenant Cover nor was itself an
accident, having been brought about
by the feeling that the defeat OF Judge
Anson Brunson for Supreme Judge
called for sop for Southern Cali
fornia. The clarion voice OF George
A. knight did;the rest.
We have said that Governor Water
man and his advisers are engaged in a
conspiracy which they are prepared to
carry to preposterous lengths, and we
know whereof we speak. Seeking re :
uge behind mere bubbles, able and
responsible Democratic officials have
already been bounded from their
offices, and the pack is in full cry for
more victims. To sustain the cru
SADIE with pretense OF law,
the agreeable fiction has at last
been invented that Governor
6toneman never legally qualified, and
that, therefore, all his appointments
are void and subject to be filled by
Waterman. Such an assumption shows
the ignorance of The accidental Gov
ornor and his cabal. As matter OF
fact, Governor Stoneman qualified be-
fore both houses of the Legislature, as
the Constitution of the State of Cali
fornia prescribes. Mr.. Waterman,
being an accidental Governor, of
course cannot be entitled to this SUI
preme distinction. In his case an or
dinary oath sufticed.
The HERALD asks any Democrat
who has been trapped into false
attitude in this matter, to carefully
consider the premises and absent him
self from premature and undeserved
demonstration which might be in
place, should the Governor show that
he has something in him, but which
oven then ought in all probability to be
confined to his fellow partizans. As
the thing stands now, it looks very
much as if the baked meats OF Cover
nor Bartlett's funeral rites were being
used to more than coldly furnish forth
the marriage feast Of Governor Water
man with the American party.
Gov. Irwin and other illustrious
Democratic Governors have been in
Los Angeles during their term o
office. and it was not thought necessa
ry that trumpet should blare and ket
tie drum give forth its sonorous note'
in triumph of Los Angeles's pledge t.
them. Gov. Stoneman was elected by
. majority three times as large as was
over received by any man who at any
time ran OH any ticket for Governor
of California, and yet it was never
thought expedient to turn all the brass
bands loose in his honor. Whence
Al this hectic impulse to honor an
Iermaphrodite candidate who went
through by mere scratch?
As matter of personal cognizance
70 know that the names OF prominent
Dsmocrats have been used in this con-
nsCtion witho 1t their consent. That
= the Hon. Stephen NJ, White is one